A Year Two Trip to Tower Bridge: exploring history and connections
A huge thank you to our amazing parents for coming along and supporting us on this trip! Your encouragement, patience, and just being there for us made the experience even more special. From helping us prepare to cheering us on every step of the way, we couldn’t have...
Arts Award Explore
Congratulations to this year's cohort of Arts Award Explore graduates. The children learned about the work of different artists, visited an artists studio, created work and held an exhibition for their families. Here they are with their certificates from Trinity...
Poplar Consortium Exhibition
The Arts Council visited the Bow Arts Poplar Consortium Exhibition this week, to learn about the different art projects that have happened in our school, and other local schools, over the past ten years. It was fun to spot Lansbury Lawrence, and to see the different...
Year 3 P4C: Learning to resolve conflicts
In Year Three, our Philosophy for Children (P4C) sessions have focused on developing essential skills for resolving conflicts. P4C is all about encouraging children to think critically, listen carefully, and engage with others in meaningful discussions. This term, one...
P4C in Year One: Philosophical Discussions About Kindness and Teamwork
In Year One's Philosophy for Children (P4C) lessons, one of the most engaging and thoughtful topics they have tackled recently has been friendship. This led to discussions about kindness and teamwork where the young minds were encouraged to ask profound questions...
Exploring Partitioning: Visual learning in Shireen class
The children in Reception are starting to explore the world of numbers using the concept of partitioning. Partitioning helps children break down numbers into smaller manageable parts. To teach this we have been using the 'Part-Part-Whole' model. This provides a hands...
Roll Up, Roll Up
There was a special circus in school today... Embracing Arts visited us, and amazed us, with their sensory performance and wonderful singing. There were sparkly things, shaky things, scented things, and lots of immersive things. The circus was lots of fun, and we all...
The Fox and the Star
We were very grateful to receive a beautiful limited edition print by Coralie Bickford-Smith, sent to us by Artsmark, Arts Council England. It's an illustration from the book of the same name by Bickford-Smith. Year 1 enjoyed listening to the story and then looking...
Do you know what you want to do? Futures Workshop
Colin and Anike presented options to Peggy Angus class about what they could do when they left school. Colin is the Learning and Development Manager at the Financial Services Compensation Scheme. Anike went to college and then chose an apprenticeship route to join the...
What is Oracy?
This week in Hepworth Class, Ms Miah had the word 'Oracy' on our board. We were full of curiosity and asked many questions to find out more. "What is that?" - Haydn"What is oracy?" - Humam"Is that our new topic?" - IshakWhat does oracy mean?" - Nahid"Is that what we...